adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
purely/truly random
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a purely random sequence of numbers
truly exceptional (= really or extremely exceptional )
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The film features a truly exceptional cast, including Oscar winner Denzel Washington.
truly great
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What makes a novel truly great ?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
democratic
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A truly democratic government would have realised the populace was against the tax and abandoned it immediately.
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But many still feel that the prisoners must be released first for a truly democratic process to take place on the island.
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To be truly democratic , the subordinate must be willing to participate.
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In a truly democratic state the bureaucracy would be transcended.
global
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Many companies will be truly global , with workers on every continent, picked specifically for the task in hand.
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Bartlett and Ghoshal argue that Stage 4 companies are not truly global .
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Here, as elsewhere, it lacks a truly global policy.
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No company can call itself truly global if it neglects such potential customers.
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There are 18 countries represented in the league, which became truly global after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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As a result regional trading blocs are emerging as natural stepping-stones in an evolutionary process toward a truly global economy.
great
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One of the world's few truly great beers was about to be brewed for the first time.
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Here was a victory of truly great moment.
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This was a present from some one I would class as a truly great sportsman and a truly great man.
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Wholly deserved by this truly great hotel!
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His station was an imitation of the Louvre, backed by the first truly great single-span train-shed built in the United States.
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These themes and features, so well sewn together are what make Great Expectations a truly great book.
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Again Gavin Hastings gave what was a truly great performance by any standards.
independent
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Nevertheless, they modified the forest by nomadic behaviour and shifting cultivation, if they became truly independent .
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In fact, they had no truly independent traditions at all.
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There is exhilaration to be had from his fresh vistas, vigorous assertions as they are of a truly independent mind.
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In short, while most judiciaries exercise some discretion in adjudication, the existence of a truly independent judiciary is a rarity.
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Even the truly independent are dependent on social and economic conditions, which are unfavourable to them.
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Indeed, no country is truly independent if its economy is such as to consign it at once to the Third World.
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Either way, there can be no doubt that when you deal with a solicitor you will receive truly independent professional advice.
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After the main Sparrow Force surrendered, the role of the Company was truly independent .
international
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For a book to have truly international appeal, it must have, well, truly international appeal!
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For the first time, the mighty strength of the United States was to be employed in a truly international conflict.
remarkable
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She was in truly remarkable condition.
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The clearly defined black spots and red bands of courage that set the rainbow apart from other trout are truly remarkable .
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The next few years were to establish Rodrigo as one of the truly remarkable soldiers of his time.
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The ignorance about mortgage bonds at the top of the firm was truly remarkable .
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Its contents are priceless and its memories are of truly remarkable people.
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A truly remarkable achievement and one that demonstrates the enthusiasm with which Johnson Matthey has responded to the challenge.
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A truly remarkable family connection of over 70 years.
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The camouflage devices employed are truly remarkable .
representative
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Like chemist and physicist we hope one day to be able to find out whether our icons are truly representative of reality.
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It is with this approach that we make the Group's work truly representative .
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Mr Denham replied that an independent appointments commission should ensure that forums were truly representative of the communities they service.
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From that particular point of view, of course, no case is truly representative .
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If this was truly representative of tomorrow's task then the event would be fiercely contested.
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Capsules have to be buried as near as possible, but there is no guarantee that the measurement will be truly representative .
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The result is an absence of diversity - a key requirement for a truly representative press and one suited for political democracy.
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But the question remains, how confident can we be that a formula score is truly representative of the overall difficulty level?
wonderful
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Simon is truly wonderful , I think.
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It must be truly wonderful to walk through life guarded by such a shield.
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John is the manager of a truly wonderful shop in Middlesbrough, Wilderness Ways.
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She must be a truly wonderful girl.
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But I do think that what he's doing is something truly wonderful - and quite different.
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Those few brief months after their marriage had been a truly wonderful period of emotional bliss and happiness.
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We could continue with this: the intricacies and refinements are truly wonderful .
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Temperature holds back some truly wonderful cars.
■ VERB
become
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Nevertheless, they modified the forest by nomadic behaviour and shifting cultivation, if they became truly independent.
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However, people only truly become friends when the interaction is continued outside that setting.
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As they grow older, they become truly independent, relying wholly on their own beliefs and ideas.
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Using state of the art passive backplane technology, Graphite Micro Series systems become truly modular.
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Operations become truly logical during the concrete operational stage.
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Design then becomes truly social; and the social becomes a matter of what is designed and formed socially.
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Finally, as the supervisor becomes a true resource manager, the team becomes truly self-managed.
believe
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The vibrancers had truly believed what they'd been taught and had never questioned anything.
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When Woosnam instructs himself to pull off a particular shot, he truly believes he can make the shot happen.
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We do truly believe that Hess wants to go to Britain.
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I truly believe he is a literary giant.
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Did Mr Djindjic truly believe that Mr Karadzic deserved his support, or was the gesture utterly cynical?
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I truly believe that there was a unification there, a representation of the wholeness.
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Yet Diana truly believed he was in love with her because of the devoted way he behaved in her presence.
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I truly believe that you influenced me for the good, Polly.
feel
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Only on top of a horse can Piggott truly feel on top of the world.
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You are such a writer, wanting to capture how sad you truly felt .
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It was after tonight that she would feel truly married.
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That lack of coaching and support is making it even harder for achievement-oriented women to feel truly engaged with their organizations.
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She truly felt she had sinned and failed.
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And yet feeling truly settled was still a novelty.
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In the peaceful rural surroundings of Thorsbury, Tamar felt truly at home.
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How does my partner truly feel about the baby?
love
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Those who truly love you will want to know the true you in any event.
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There are people who truly love sales.
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She truly loved the game, and she was good at it.
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Jessica still eats Jell-O, for instance, and relishes its goofiness even as she truly loves the way it tastes.
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The truth was, he had a complete lack of the equipment demanded for truly loving .
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I think you take for granted how much you truly love the sport.
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That she truly loved me was not to be doubted.
reflect
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He could truly reflect that he had done not only the best, but the only thing possible.
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With older children, the issues are more complex and may truly reflect differences in male and female attitudes.
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Unfortunately, it was the last Chilton collection to truly reflect his talent.
understand
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Quite the reverse, these become the trusted friends that truly understand and can be of real help in time of trouble.
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To truly understand the plight of the Jets, consider this slice of trivia.
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It did not exorcise demons, for those who truly understand the game of basketball realize that no real demons existed.
want
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If we truly want democracy, we need this sort of input.
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I also said that I truly wanted the team to stay together.
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Now is the time to stop this end-gaining mentality and realize what we truly want in our lives.
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Some force deep within truly wants to believe aliens cured that Montana farmer of his pesky hernia problem.
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The first thing to do is to ask yourself what you truly want .
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Lennox has always truly wanted to fight for the world title and was happy taking the tough route.
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If he truly wanted land reform he could have achieved it non-violently during his long 20-year rule.
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If they really truly wanted you then they'd have stayed in that boring old cottage you keep going on about.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Yours truly
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A comparatively leisurely schedule of Yours Truly still entailed travelling to twenty-one cities in thirty-five weeks.
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All high tech and computers and whatnot. Yours truly won't be moving to the new premises.
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It is very important so I hope you will come. Yours truly, Hilda Passmore.
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Of course it's Yours Truly that's got to dust the whole kit and caboodle!
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The man of your dreams has come. Yours truly is handsome, ear-nose-throat specialist, well settled in Connecticut.
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There are an awful lot of Luddites out there with computer dyslexia, including Yours Truly.
Yours truly/Yours
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A comparatively leisurely schedule of Yours Truly still entailed travelling to twenty-one cities in thirty-five weeks.
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All high tech and computers and whatnot. Yours truly won't be moving to the new premises.
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It is very important so I hope you will come. Yours truly, Hilda Passmore.
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Of course it's Yours Truly that's got to dust the whole kit and caboodle!
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The man of your dreams has come. Yours truly is handsome, ear-nose-throat specialist, well settled in Connecticut.
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There are an awful lot of Luddites out there with computer dyslexia, including Yours Truly.
really and truly
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I really truly love you.
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A trade that really and truly helped both teams.
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She was really and truly home.
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That she'd been really and truly in love and couldn't go on.
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What he would really and truly like was to do this new degree course for Bachelor of Civil Law.
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Who really and truly and honestly gives a shit?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For the first time in her life she felt truly happy.
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Getting accepted into Yale is truly an accomplishment.
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I'm truly sorry. I didn't mean to upset you.
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I truly am impressed with your work.
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I truly believe he is innocent.
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If we truly believe we can win, then we have a very good chance at doing it.
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It was a truly embarrassing moment.
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No adult twins are truly identical.
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She seems truly sorry for what she did.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By then Diana was truly at the end of her tether.
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Pacino cuts them together for a truly original version of Shakespeare that could only be realized on film.
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Similarly, mimicry of the expressions, stance and actions of a truly violent encounter can represent an intention or threat.
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The choice is endless, from the quaintly historic to the truly exotic.
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The Curators, with no other concerns in the matter, were truly speaking in the best interests of the children.
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There is always something of the arbitrary, because all that can truly stand for a thing is the thing itself.
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To this day I believe it truly was less disillusionment and more an embrace of sober realism that moved me to change.